Q & A: Steve McKee and Dylan Page

Page: I have been interested in acting for most of my life, but I didn’t get serious about theater until my Junior year of high school. I was in a production of Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean at Tucson High School and I fell in love with the whole process.

Why acting?

McKee: It’s a great way to be creative.

Are there qualities in your character that you also see in yourself?

McKee: He’s good and noble and always sees the positive side of things.

Page: There are a lot of actors who I respect a great deal, but two that I really admire are Meryl Streep and Natalie Portman.

Do you have any actors or actresses you admire?

McKee: Christopher Guest, Hank Azzaria

What is your favorite previous role?

Page: This past year I played two roles that really solidified my passion for theater. The first was Evelyn in The Shape of Things with the Arizona Repertory Theatre at the U of A and the second was Dewey Dell in As I Lay Dying at The Rogue Theater. The first because of the challenge it posed for me as an actor, and as a person, and the second because of the beauty and complexity of Faulkner’s characters and language.

What are you most excited about for in this play?

McKee: Rogue Theatre does great quality work. You can tell everyone rises to the best of their abilities.

Page: This play is so epic, and so many things happen. We get to dance, sing, and operate a massive puppet all in the course of a two hour production and I think I am most excited for those things.